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"Here, Jesse," father said to me, tearing a strip from the sheet and fastening it to an ox-goad.
Chapter 13 2010
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Here again is where the fat German or the French madame is needed -- with an ox-goad.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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From the puckered front peered a woman and two children; the man of the family was walking wearily beside, swinging an ox-goad.
Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911
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Snatching up this, with his ox-goad, he followed in the footsteps of his fleeing wife.
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Snatching up this, with his ox-goad, he followed in the footsteps of his fleeing wife.
The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1900
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My hair is very white now, and my fingers hold a pen more easily than they could hold the ox-goad or the rifle, and mine to-day is all the backward look.
Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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"Here, Jesse," father said to me, tearing a strip from the sheet and fastening it to an ox-goad.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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Thus _aleph_, an ox; _beth_, a tent; _daleth_, a tent-door; _lamed_, an ox-goad; _mem_, water;
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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A herdsman, she judged, as Soa had suggested, for in a corner of the room stood an ox-goad hugely fashioned.
The People of the Mist Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Doctor Holmes kept a rattlesnake in a cage for a pet, and was accustomed to stir it up with an ox-goad.
Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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